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Floods ravage cities in China, bridges, roads destroyed 19/7/2018
   With over 241 rivers bursting their banks and flooding cities in 24 Chinese provinces, the devastation experienced in the country this week got worse.To get more latest china news, you can visit shine news official website. Heavy rains and thunderstorms wrecked havoc across China, with floods destroying bridges, blocking roads and railways and forcing thousands to evacuate.
 According to reports in Chinese state media, thousands of residents were forced to evacuate after floods in 24 provinces over the last few days. The State television estimated that the floods had caused direct economic losses to the tune of $3.87 billion (25.9 billion Yuan). Explaining the magnitude of the disaster, reports pointed out that on Thursday, the Ministry of Emergency Management had stated that floods in the province had caused damage to the tune of about 2.4 billion yuan.
The Ministry of Emergency Management subsequently sent emergency relief teams to Sichuan and neighboring Gansu province. The following day, on Friday, the nearby city of Chongqing had evacuated over 80,000 residents. On Friday, the normally arid region of Inner Mongolia, which had suffered weeks of drought, also issued a flood warning. Meanwhile, on Saturday, local reports noted that the flood-prone Yangtze river has seen a massive increase in water volumes, causing flooding in many of its tributaries.
The river, which runs from Yunnan in the southwest to Jiangsu and Shanghai on the east coast, is said to have brought water volumes in the giant Three Gorges reservoir close to record levels. On Friday, State news agency Xinhua reported that over ten major highways in Sichuan province were inaccessible as a result of flooding. The report further pointed out that a bridge across Sichuan’s Min river, which is a tributary of the Yangtze river, had collapsed causing more devastation in the region.
 Making matters worse, weather authorities are forecasting more downpours throughout the country on Saturday. Forecasters warned of more floods and landslides that are expected in the southwestern province of Sichuan. They pointed out that while heavy rain and flooding hits much of China this time every year, often leaving hundreds of casualties, the number of deaths this year has been relatively low.
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